Torrent Freak interviews BitTorrent creator Bram Cohen, who expresses his general dislike of BT encryption, and once again pushes his ISP caching solution, which as we've frequently mentioned is an effort to prevent ISPs from keeping users from his upcoming video store. Cohen has this to say about ISPs who throttle or otherwise impair BitTorrent traffic:

"Legal traffic is growing within the P2P ecosystem and piracy also travels with HTTP and FTP in high volumes. ISPs have to invest in making their networks better and faster rather than stifling applications which consumers use and love. That’s just bad marketing and customer service, especially given the competition which exists in the broadband industry and consumer focus on network neutrality. For instance, in Japan and Korea, consumers currently enjoy true all-you-can eat symmetric fiber-to-the-home at 100 mbps. That’s a great environment for P2P development to make the Web a truly powerful medium for on-demand media, with broadcast economics. Of course, it also leads to the question: Why is the United States two generations behind?"

Just wait until politicians eager to pass network neutrality laws suddenly realize that RCN is admittedly impeding BitTorrent, therefore impeding the purchase of competing legitimate video services from Cohen's company. His advice to users who find out their ISP is impeding BitTorrent traffic? Switch.